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Abuja, Nigeria, June 26, 2015--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Chadian authorities’ ejection this week of a French journalist. Laurent Correau, reporter for Radio France Internationale, was assaulted by police alongside an international human rights defender before being expelled, according to news reports.

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New York, January 22, 2015--Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday shut down Internet access and SMS service for mobile phones throughout the country after nationwide demonstrations led to deadly clashes with police, according to news reports.

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New
York, April 24, 2014--An investigative journalist in Cameroon told CPJ today
that his car had been destroyed
in an explosion early this morning. Denis Nkwebo said the car was parked
outside his house in the commercial capital of Douala, and that no one was hurt
in the explosion.

Nkwebo, an editor of the leading private daily Le Jour, told CPJ that acquaintances and his contacts within the government had warned him to be careful in his investigation and coverage of Cameroonian security forces. In an April 15 article, Nkwebo said security forces were struggling to stem a spate of kidnappings and armed attacks in the regions bordering unstable Nigeria and the strife-torn Central African Republic.

"@RFI speak straight
up English, frenchie!! U crying? U started not to make sense," was one taunting
tweet from a certain prolific Twitter account belonging to "Richard Goldston." The
account, since deleted, belonging to a self-proclaimed "anti-imperialist,"
repeatedly antagonized Radio France Internationale journalist Sonia Rolley for her critical coverage of the deaths of
Rwandan government officials-turned-dissidents.

Last week, South
Sudanese Information Minister Michael Makuei warned reporters in the capital, Juba, not to interview the opposition
or face possible arrest or expulsion from the country. According to the
minister, a lawyer by profession, broadcast interviews with rebels by local
media are considered "hostile propaganda" and "in conflict with the law."

Two murdered journalists for the
Africa service of Radio France Internationale, Ghislaine Dupont, 51, and Claude
Verlon, 58, might have had a chance. They were abducted on November 2 in Kidal
in northern Mali, but the vehicle their captors were driving suddenly broke
down, according to news
reports.

New York, November 4, 2013--The
Committee to Protect Journalists today calls on Malian and French authorities
to conduct an efficient investigation into the killings of two French
journalists on Saturday and ensure the killers are brought to justice.

Nairobi, March 6, 2013--Burundian authorities today released Hassan Ruvakuki, a reporter who has been imprisoned for 16 monthson charges related to his interview with a rebel leader. The circumstances of the release were not immediately clear, and the Committee to Protect Journalists called on authorities to vacate Ruvakuki's conviction and prison sentence.

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At 8 o'clock Tuesday morning roughly 50 Burundian
journalists silently marched
around the courthouses in the capital, Bujumbura, and the offices of the
justice minister, protesting the imprisonment
of their colleague, Hassan
Ruvakuki.

"They sentenced him to three years without following the
law," said Patrick Nduwimana, one of the protest organizers and the interim
director of local private radio station Bonesha
FM. A week earlier, on Tuesday, January 8, an appeals court in Burundi had sentenced
Ruvakuki, a reporter for Bonesha FM and the French government-backed Radio France Internationale, to
three years imprisonment for "working with a criminal group."